OOPS! First step on a very slippery slope…
It is one thing to perhaps flag such sites as ‘dubious’, but another to block them. Even using dubious flags is risky though…
Anybody left that’s big enough to be useful?
I’m still DDG for now, because I don’t search those things out - but on the lookout for somewhere that resists the temptation…
And you know what happens next…you will slip and fall. I switched to searx, an open source metasearch engine.
It is not blocking them. Only down-ranking them 
Or in the words of its CEO, Gabriel Weinberg:
Search engines by definition try to put more relevant content higher and less relevant content lower—that’s not censorship, it’s search ranking relevancy.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/duckduckgo-to-down-rank-sites-associated-with-russian-disinformation
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGone
Aren’t you misquoting?
Those are not my words 
I know, that’s how forum quoting works 
That’s what I get for not reading carefully (distracted by attempted coding) - still don’t like it, though. Thanks for the clarification…
Thin end of the wedge.
Has anyone tried this one yet?
I don’t know, I haven’t tried it yet. It looks like you can customize your search criteria, but this way you can miss out on important results.
I haven’t used it but it collects quite a lot of data in “personal” mode. It claims to not do this in “private” mode but I don’t see an easy way to ensure it is always in private mode by default. Of course, I didn’t look that hard so it may be possible.
Yes, you are right! From the little that I have tried it now, it seems that you have to set it to the private mode manually yourself every time. If I find some more about it, I’ll post later on.
Just came across this site to compare many different search engines:
While I don’t trust pretty much any search engine I tend to use DDG because I get fewer junk results and overall better ones than I do on Google or any other.
As to the censorship claims from them I never had TPB or any torrent sites blocked personally. The instant I heard about it happening I checked and results for me had been normal. ¯\ (°-°)/¯
I don’t believe in any of these so called Privacy respecting search engines. What’s in it for them? It’s all about revenue. So they are using the data for a purpose. There is always another motive. This is the problem i have with everything on the Internet. It wasn’t designed for this purpose and these big players and everyone in between are only interested in one thing. 
They couldn’t care less about our privacy!
Ad revenue?
Exactly…all about
I mean, of course it is all about money but it is possible to respect privacy and make money…